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HUGE BATTLE GROUND SPOILERS - (Un)Answered questions
Conspiracy Theorist:
Michael swears!!!
And it isn’t even a hit your hammer with a thumb situation.
Oh and all my darkest theories about Lacuna are correct, she does collect the teeth of the fallen dead on the Battlefield, The Redcap was acting for Mab all along, which means Lacuna has always been Mab’s agent, so Lacuna probably did scrimshaw Lloyd Slates teeth. Toot is totally in love with her despite all her creepiness, or perhaps because of it.
Pizza never dies.
And Harry does refer to the Great Hall in the BFS building as a basketball court, after taking ownership. Molly describes it as being like a huge damp gloomy basement. Harry says perfect.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on September 29, 2020, 04:37:58 PM ---First Battle Ground is good. But a good editor could have put this in one slightly longer book and called it Peace Talks. The story would have been better served. Small Spoiler. (click to show/hide)Butters chops down a bridge with his sword. Super sword. Can't hurt small children, cuts down bridges with a single bound and has a smart speaker built in. ::) ::) ::)
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I think you are right, especially on the second read of Peace Talks, it cuts off just as things begin to fall into place. I am glad I delayed my second read and finished just a couple of days ago.. GO BUTTERS! Polka will never die!
vultur:
--- Quote from: Darkest-Before-Dawn on September 29, 2020, 03:27:56 PM --- This suggests Dracula isn't really involved (or even un-alive) as Drakul seems to be very past-tensey about him.
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I think Dracula got killed in the Stokerlypse. Yes the WOJs on it suggest Dracula created the Court as an act of rebellion against Drakul... maybe Drakul sort of 'inherited' it?
--- Quote ---Anything other readers have been waiting to see or questions that were answered?
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Confirmation that Nemesis is He Who Walks Beside, and near-confirmation that the Blackstaff is Mother Winter's walking stick (Eb's shadow turns into an "old woman, complete with the classic witch nose and chin").
--- Quote --- And what questions do people want answered subsequently?!
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What's the deal with "stars and stones", and why is knowing about it so important that Listens-to-Wind doesn't feel able to tell Harry?
What does it mean that Drakul is starborn? If Drakul is an inhuman entity trapped in human form, what does it even mean for him to be "born" at a specific time - is he possessing a pre-existing human body that was actually born, vs creating a body the way Uriel temporarily did in SG?
Psyklone:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 29, 2020, 03:36:19 PM --- Good Grief! Some of it sounds like crap! As in throw in everything but the kitchen sink crap. I hope it doesn't read that way. Will try and reserve judgement, but still... :o ???
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It read well enough. The plot device used was believable, Imho, it is just that Battle Ground is just that. The entire book is Chitchen Itza, which we are not used to so it takes a bit of adjustment. If you aren't fresh off of Peace Talks it may not read as well, and I wouldn't recommend ever reading Battle Ground alone/without Peace Talks.
This book was another Changes, it cleared the field of a bunch of issues, to set up the next goal post. I can tell that however many books are left, Jim has started to summon Godzilla, and the waters are starting to churn.
What interests me mostly is how he left things between Harry and the White Council. It suggests that in the next book or book after the White Council will be hit imo, as the events here have thoroughly fermented the situation for dissolution, abandonement, and open internal strife.
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I will also be interested to see what happens with the Grey Council now...especially since Harry is even more isolated than before.
Poten26:
I agree, definitely reads well and thought it was great.
Not sure how I feel about murphy dying though, be interesting how mirror mirror takes the story forward. Last time we had a changes, ghost story was a completely different pace and book.
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